The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 2
People also brought animals that ran wild: dingoes thousands of years ago, then camels and cane toads, and the toads have become a poisonous pest.
Who acts: People, animals, toads · What happens: bring, run, become · To what, where: animals, poisonous pest
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, animals, toads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 animals | acl:relcl |
| 7 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ran | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 dingoes | punct |
| 9 | dingoes | dingo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | compound |
| 10 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 animals | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | nmod |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 dingoes | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 camels | punct |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 camels | advmod |
| 16 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thousands | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 toads | cc |
| 18 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 toads | compound |
| 19 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 camels | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 become | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 toads | det |
| 23 | toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 become | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 brought | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 pest | det |
| 27 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pest | amod |
| 28 | pest | pest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 become | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | People | animals and dingoes thousands of years and camels and cane toads | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | ||||
| 2 | run | past | animals and dingoes thousands of years and camels and cane toads | wild property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | present · perfect | the toads | a poisonous pest | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.lesson:2.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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